1990, ISBN: 9783615000603

Hildesheim, Weidmann, X, 483 Seiten / p. Originalleinen. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Trad… Plus…

Hildesheim, Weidmann, X, 483 Seiten / p. Originalleinen. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - S. 312-325 schlecht gedruckt ( aber lesbar und vollständig), ansonsten tadelloser Zustand - pp. 312-325 poorly printed ( but legible and complete), otherwise immaculate condition - Preface -- In an article published in the Journal of Roman Studies in 1961 (Kleine Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie II, pp. 115 ff.), Eduard Fraenkel writes: -- But on another occasion, in poem XVII, O Colonia, Catullus introduces his Roman readers to the strange ceremony which as a small boy he had watched with delight in the neighbourhood of his birthplace Verona. That ceremony had once been part of a serious religious ritual, but, as happens in this world, in course of time it had changed its character to that of a camivalesque pastime. But whether picturing a well-known and common ceremony or one remote and rare, Catullus always applies to it the care and the skill of a great artist. He makes use of those customs not because he, like a scholarly poet or an antiquarian, is interested in folklore for its own sake. His approach differs widely from that of Callimachus and those other Alexandrian poets who were constantly on the look-out for something refined and recondite. It is not impossible that their example may have encouraged Catullus to treat similar themes. But, if so, he did it in a spirit of his own. (p. 124) -- These remarks encapsulate grosso modo the thesis of this book. -- Historians of Latin literature are fond of the term ?imitation,? and even those who are not disciples of Plato mean nothing complimentary by that term. Why they should then be surprised by a general decline of interest in their studies is not entirely clear. -- But the lazy theory is too imprecise to be useful. Rome had its own aesthetic tradition, certainly crude and primitive when compared with that of Greece, but not negligible either in the formation of its masterpieces. Too much emphasis on imitation both obscures this Roman originality and confuses grown men with schoolboys required to follow their master's ypografíi. There is of course ancient precedent for this. Gellius on the comparative merits of Caecilius Statius' and Menander's Plocium is a good example. But, in cultural imitation, what is taken is conditioned and determined by the taker, secundum modum recipientis as the medieval scholastics say, and we have been too contemptuous of the modus. -- Catullus lived at a time when Roman poets were very much aware of their need to take, and of the inadequacies, as they saw them, of their literary heritage: hodieque manent vestigia ruris. But he is also a powerful proof of the energy and independence of the Roman genius. This study of him has been written to illustrate this independence in the face of the seductive bittersweets of Alexandria, and perhaps in the process to remove some of the misconceptions that have surrounded his modem reputation. ISBN 9783615000603Römisches Reich 1990, [PU: Weidmann, Hildesheim]<

1990, ISBN: 3615000609

Weidmann, Hildesheim, 1990. X/484 S., Leinen - Neuwertig, original verlagsfrisch verpackt -, [PU: Weidmann, Hildesheim]

ISBN: 3615000609

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